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Sri Lanka hasten to save Test after Yasir Shah strikes twice
- Updated: October 2, 2017
PHOTO COURTESY: ICC
ABU DHABI: Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah grabbed a pivotal wicket of Dinesh Chandimal to leave Sri Lanka fighting to equivocate better after a fourth day of a initial Test in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
The inclusive wicket-taker took 2-25 as Sri Lanka struggled to 69-4, wanting a rearguard movement to save a Test.
Pakistan will be awaiting to pull for feat in a opening compare of a two-Test array on a fifth and final day.
It was tough to negotiate spin on a fourth-day Sheikh Zayed Stadium pitch, yet notwithstanding a 32nd Test five-wicket transport for maestro Sri Lankan spinner Rangana Herath, Pakistan posted 422 to take a slim three-run lead.
Sri Lanka had done 419 in their initial innings.
At a close, Kusal Mendis was batting on 16, with nightwatchman Suranga Lakmal on two, after a day of vacillating fortunes.
Herath’s 5-93 in 40 overs were good foiled by a shining 76 by Test debutant Haris Sohail, as primarily it looked as yet Sri Lanka would take a first-innings lead.
Pakistan afterwards strike behind in a second innings by Shah, who initial had opener Dimuth Karunaratne held for 10 and afterwards discharged first-innings centurion Chandimal, held during slip, for seven.
Sohail followed his obliged strike by claiming Kaushal Silva’s wicket, whom he trapped leg before for 25, while part-timer Asad Shafiq had Lahiru Thirimanne for seven.
The 28-year-old Sohail’s considerable Test crawl has come notwithstanding a career-threatening knee damage that compulsory medicine in 2015.
“The final dual years were tough for me as there was a lot of speak on my injury,” he said. “But thankfully we am here and played a obliged knock. we was underneath vigour since we indispensable to take a lead, so we had to play a obliged strike that we did.”
Earlier in a day, Pakistan too were struggling during 316-6 and were in risk of surrender a healthy lead with Herath regulating all his knowledge and guile.
The 39-year-old left-arm spinner, who now has 394 wickets in 84 Tests, gave his group a much-needed wicket of a unaffected Azhar Ali, luring him into an uppish expostulate that was brilliantly held during brief mid-wicket by a diving Mendis.
Azhar’s daring strike of 85 lasted some-more than 5 hours and enclosed 4 boundaries, yet with his exclusion Pakistan’s hopes of building a lead looked slim.
But Sohail had other ideas as he combined an useful 50 for a ninth wicket with tail-ender Hasan Ali to lift Pakistan from 340-8.
Sohail strike 7 fours and dual sixes before holing out to paceman Nuwan Pradeep, who finished with 2-77.
Hasan’s whirlwind 25-ball 29 featured 3 sixes and dual fours.
The second and final Test — a day-night event — will be played in Dubai from Oct 6.